Chamoli

The Badrinath highway which was closed after heavy rain and landslides around midnight, opened on Tuesday morning, an official said. Landslides triggered on Monday night at Lambagad left the highway blocked with rocks for almost eight hours. The annual ‘Chaar Dham’ pilgrimage at the other three places – Yamunotri, Gangotri and Kedarnath though were running smoothly, he added. Water-logging was ...

Pilgrims to Hemkund Sahib and tourists travelling to Valley of Flowers in Chamoli district will now be able to enjoy 2G mobile services after Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has installed a mobile tower at Ghangaria village. The services will be available within a 4km radius from Ghangaria. Harshwardhan Nakholiya, junior telecom officer (JTO), BSNL, said, “For the first time, ...

Chamoli police have seized 18-kg of explosives from an ex-serviceman on Gopeswhar-Kedarnath road in Chamoli district on Sunday morning.  Acting on intelligence inputs, the Chamoli police arrested Satyapal Singh, former soldier and resident of Gopeshwar, from in front of a local hotel and recovered 45 sticks of gelatin, which is a prohibited ‘class-II explosive’. “We have arrested an ex-serviceman today ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The polling for the 70 seats for Uttarakhand Assembly came to an end on Thursday with around 58.60 per cent of the voters casting their votes in the election   for the Karnprayag Vidhan Sabha constituency. The voting was peaceful with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere in the constituency.  The election to this constituency was postponed after the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two days left for the polling for Karnprayag constituency in Chamoli district 13 polling teams, including the presiding officers and the polling officers, left for their assigned polling centres spread over the far- flung areas of the constituency on Tuesday. The remaining 156 teams would depart on Wednesday,   said Chamoli district election officer Vinod Kumar Suman on Tuesday. A total of 91, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU To compete with BJP’s campaign congress has also intensified their campaign and  chief minister Harish Rawat reached Joshimath to canvass for the Congress candidate and sitting MLA from Badrinath constituency, Rajendra Singh Bhandari on Friday. Addressing a public gathering here, the chief minister accused the BJP of playing the “politics of misinformation”.   Referring to the long ...